Escape from Tarkov: Newer, Better DayZ?

You’re a mercenary, a hired gun. Besieged within a city you know nothing about. Sealed off from the outside world leaving supply lines – cut, communication – lost, and a pugnaciously growing environment in a desolate concrete jungle. Supplies are short, leaving you to loot, scavenge, or even kill to survive. However, you’re not the only one acting on your need of survival. Every building, street, or wreckage one must be vigilant, as much of this urban sprawl is plagued with those willing to hunt you. There are no zombies, demons, or mutated creatures, but simply those like you. Mercenaries doing what it takes to survive and giving them time to plan their Escape from Tarkov.

This is the world that awaits you in the upcoming game of Escape from Tarkov by Battlestate Games. It’s probably a tale very familiar for those who have played any survival, open-world games in the last four years – from what I call the DayZ Boom. It wasn’t by mistake that we were blessed (and cursed) with an exuberant rush of open-world survivals after the long seen popularity of the DayZ mod, released for Bohemia Interactive’s Arma 2 in 2012. Games such as H1Z1, Project Zomboid, again – DayZ (2013), Unturned, and Nether, just to name a few. But how is this game different? Is this simply just another DayZ-esque survival game. Well, it sure got my attention, so let’s go through what we know.